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should he kept dean from weeds and ruhhish.'" (By follow- 

 ing this advice the benefits of mulching must be lost. It 

 were better, however, to lose this advantage than to have 

 much premature and wrong fruit.) 



"But as already stated on a previous page, many of the 

 worms of the second brood still remain in the apples even 

 after they are gathered for market. These wormy apples 

 are barreled up with the sound ones and stored away in the 

 cellar or in the barn — from them the worms continue to issue, 

 and they generally find plenty of convenient corners about the 

 barrels in which to form their cocoons. HundrC'Sof these 

 cocoons may sometimes be found around a single barrel, and 

 it therefore becomes obvious that, no matter how thoroughly 

 the hay-band had been carried during the Summer, there 

 would yet remain a sufficiency in such situations to abun- 

 dantly continue the species another year. And when we 

 consider that every female moth which escapes in the Spring 

 lays from two to three hundred eggs, and thus spoils so many 

 apples, the practical importance of thoroughly examining, in 

 the spring of the year, all barrels or other vessels in which 

 apples have been stored becomes apparent. It should, there- 

 fore, also be made a rule to destroy all the cocoons which are 

 to be found on such barrels or vessels either by burning them 

 up or by immersing them in scalding-hot water. 



"Now there is nothing in these rules but can be performed 

 at little trouble and no expense. Their execution must hence- 

 forth be considered a part of apple-growing. Let every apple- 

 grower in Missouri (and throughout the country) carry them 

 out strictly, and see that his neighbors do likewise, and fine, 

 smooth, unblemished fruit will be your reward. 



"The philosophy of the hay-band system is simply that 

 the worms, in quitting the fruit, whether while it is on the 

 tree or on the ground, in their search for a cozy nook, in 

 which to spin up, find the shelter given by the hay-band just, 

 the thing, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they will 

 accept the lure, if no other more enticing be in the way. I 

 have thoroughly tested this remedy the past Summer, and have 

 found it far more effectual than I had anticipated wherever 



